Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Resales- are waiting lists worth it?

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

The trouble with waiting lists is that they need to be updated regularily in
order to be valuable. The names more than 6-12 months old are probably not
still interested. If you attach some conditions to being on this list, such
as must attend 3 events, then perhaps the quality of the list will be
better. At Sharingwood we don't have any waiting lists going, and still get
two to three tourists a month, some of whom seem really interested but we
make no effort to keep their contact info. We had a rental opening this
month which I think was open for two days before a couple different people
inquired and one moved on it. It was pure word of mouth advertising. We have
not had any problems selling any of the 5 homes for sale in the past two
years, in fact, not one of them made to the official market, although one
did get marketed by the owner in cohousing-l and a couple other more local
cohousing channels.

We could have a waiting list if anybody wanted to put the energy into it,
nobody does and so we don't.

Rob Sandelin
Northwest Intentional Communties Association
Building a better society, one neighborhood at a time